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Originally designed to combat urban traffic congestion in large cities, metro systems are no longer confined to the role of providing transport infrastructure. Nowadays, they are becoming an urban structuring tool, around which mobility policy is developed, and a key factor in improving quality of life.

Today, there are 33 tramway systems in the new EU Member States, a further 19 in the remaining Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), and over 110 in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Regional public transport covers all collective passenger transport services excluding long-distance intercity transport and public transport within cities and urban centres. Various interpretations are possible in this respect.

The contribution public transport makes to reducing carbon use and the mitigating the risk of climate change; this paper will provide a short background on greenhouse gases (ghg), detail the share and responsibility for public transport; and provide recommendations.

The transport & urban life commission invites uitp and its members to take actions to raise the profile of public transport as a key factor of social inclusion. regional divisions are invited to develop their respective agenda of actions based on a proposed common framework.

Why focus on appraisal?

In recent years the economic appraisal of transport schemes has become an ever-more essential part of their development. Increasing constraints on public funding and the sheer volume of competing schemes across the whole sphere of government (or even within transport) require public transport scheme promoters to provide sound and thorough analyses justifying the scheme’s value for money.Public transport appraisal:

The rise of large events

Cities are the theatre of a growing number of large events: sport competitions, concerts, cultural festivals, religious pilgrimages and business conventions, to name just a few. Increasingly several large events even occur at the same time. For instance about 4,000 large events take place in London (UK) every year and, on the weekend of the 7-8th

Modern mobility is based on flexibility and a high level of convenience. Combined Mobility is the answer: carsharing, taxis and shared taxis, bicycle and bike-sharing, car-pooling, demand-responsive transport, car-rental, etc., are services that can complement the classic fixed line- and timetable-bound public transport services and, together with walking, they form a complete and coherent mobility solution.

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About UITP

As a passionate champion of sustainable urban mobility, UITP is internationally recognised for its work to advance the development of this critical policy agenda. UITP has a long history to its name, and is the only worldwide network to bring together all public transport stakeholders and all sustainable transport modes.